The Marriage Bargain
The sizzling first installment in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Marriage to a Billionaire trilogy. To save her family home, impulsive bookshop owner Alexa McKenzie, casts a love spell, which conjures up an unexpected visitor - her best friend's older brother and the powerful man...
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The sizzling first installment in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Marriage to a Billionaire trilogy. To save her family home, impulsive bookshop owner Alexa McKenzie, casts a love spell, which conjures up an unexpected visitor - her best friend's older brother and the powerful man who once shattered her heart. Billionaire Nicholas Ryan doesn't believe in marriage, but in order to inherit his father's corporation, he needs a wife and needs one fast. When he discovers his sister's childhood friend is in dire financial straits, he's offers Alexa an interesting proposal... A marriage in name only, the rules? Avoid entanglement. Keep things businesslike. Do not fall in love. The arrangement is only for a year so the rules shouldn't be that hard to follow... Except Fate has a way of upsetting the best laid plans…"Jennifer Probst has proved to be one of the most exciting breakout novelists in the romance genre." - USA Today
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B0098MB6D6
Publish date: September 21st 2012
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Pages no: 328
Edition language: English
Series: Marriage to a Billionaire (#1)
The huge font size made this a quick read. To me, it read like a Mills & Boon/Harlequin book that had been boosted with some graphic sex. I liked it but I wasn't blown away by it, it was all a bit predictable.
I gave two stars for the dog.
The last third of this book is pretty good. The first two thirds is a hellish morass of will they/won't they. If that proportion had been reversed and a lot less emphasis placed on sexual tension and more on the emotional tension (which is quite well written) my rating would be flipped as well. Inst...
Entretenido, corto y ligeramente sexy.
Hi, mein Name ist Maggi und ich bin nur von Problemfällen umgeben. Gut, es sind nur 2, aber die habens in sich. Da wäre Alexa, meine beste Freundin, sie ist zwar soweit Glücklich aber sie braucht dringend 150'000 Dollar. Und zwar schnell, und unkompliziert, denn sie will mit dem Geld das Haus ihr...